Mike@DedicatedPerfection
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Round 1: McKee’s 37 put to work
First off, I was sent a box of product to put through its paces and perform reviews from Nick. I only used a few of the many products sent. I first wanted to get somewhat of a Show ‘N Shine together and then individual reviews will come.
Thanks a bunch Nick!
Now my wife’s BMW has seen its fair share of Autobahn driving in the nasty salt covered roads from winter weather. It was long overdue for a proper wash and I received a box just in time to help get the grime off the vehicle.
Armed with my newly purchased Kärcher Underbody Chassis cleaner in hand and Kärcher Pressure Washer, I took off doing the chassis of the BMW first. I must have spent an hour on this process, as you will see below. I decided to put the Xtreme Foam Formula in the foam attachment to foam the undercarriage after blasting away the dirt to help further clean the chassis. After that I HP rinsed the chassis again to remove the Foam residue.
After the chassis was taken care of next up is the wheel, tire, and wheel well routine. I first started cleaning up the wheels with the Foaming Gel Wheel Cleaner. I noticed it was thicker than other wheel cleaners and stuck pretty well to the wheel without running off. Nowhere is the harsh chemical smell of a color-changing wheel cleaner. Next up are the tires. The Rubber Rejuvenator works as you can see the tire bleeding brown residue as you clean the tire. The wheel wells were cleaned up with the Cleanse All exterior cleaner.
When starting the exterior of the vehicle I wanted to remove and cut down the amount of filth on the outside before touching it with a wash mitt. I first gave the vehicle a HP rinse to blast away as much filth as I could. Next up I foamed the vehicle with McKee’s 37 Xtreme Foam Formula Auto Shampoo and let it dwell on the surface for a while. After giving it some time to saturate, I gave it a HP rinse to remove the soap residues. I did not know it at that exact moment but found out later on in the wash stage how effective it was by letting the foam residue dwell and then HP rinsing it off.
After I rinsed the soap residue off, I loaded up McKee’s 37 Power Wash and foamed the vehicle again, I also loaded up the 2BM with Power wash in the wash bucket and set off washing the vehicle with the foam still dwelling on the surface. Here is where I realized how effective the first step of pre foaming the vehicle was as I could not believe how relatively clean my mitt was coming from the surface considering how dirty the paint was to start with.
After getting the vehicle washed I gave it another HP rinse to thoroughly remove all soap residues and proceeded to blow dry the vehicle with a leaf blower. When the vehicle was dry I followed up with an application of McKee’s 37 Fast Wax to protect the surface.
Keep your eyes open as the paint correction will follow up in another thread when I get more time to accomplish the correction work.
Total time spent on the wash detail: 5 Hours
Undercarriage:
HP Rinse via Kärcher underbody chassis cleaner
Undercarriage foamed via Kärcher Chassis cleaner/foam gun attachment and McKee’s 37 Xtreme Foam Formula Auto Shampoo
Another HP Rinse via Kärcher underbody chassis cleaner to remove Foam Wash residue
Kärcher 3n1 Chassis protectant applied via Kärcher foam gun attachment
Wheels, Tires, and wells:
Wheels cleaned up with McKee’s 37 Foaming Wheel Cleaner Gel
Tires Cleaned up with McKee’s 37 Tire and Rubber Rejuvenator
Wheel wells cleaned up with McKee’s 37 Cleanse All Exterior Cleaner
Wash:
HP Rinse with Kärcher Pressure washer
Foamed with McKee’s 37 Xtreme Foam Formula Auto Shampoo and left to dwell
HP Rinse McKee’s 37 Foam Formula from surface
Foamed again with McKee’s 37 Power wash
While covered in foam washed with Power wash via 2BM
Protection:
Spray wax application with McKee’s 37 Fast wax
Tires & Trim protected with McKee’s 37 Gloss Tire Gel
The start of the job
Foaming the undercarriage after a HP rinse to help cut down/remove filth
Next up: wheels, tires, wells
Foaming round 1
Foaming round 2
Nice and thick
After washing with foam soaked surface
First off, I was sent a box of product to put through its paces and perform reviews from Nick. I only used a few of the many products sent. I first wanted to get somewhat of a Show ‘N Shine together and then individual reviews will come.
Thanks a bunch Nick!
Now my wife’s BMW has seen its fair share of Autobahn driving in the nasty salt covered roads from winter weather. It was long overdue for a proper wash and I received a box just in time to help get the grime off the vehicle.
Armed with my newly purchased Kärcher Underbody Chassis cleaner in hand and Kärcher Pressure Washer, I took off doing the chassis of the BMW first. I must have spent an hour on this process, as you will see below. I decided to put the Xtreme Foam Formula in the foam attachment to foam the undercarriage after blasting away the dirt to help further clean the chassis. After that I HP rinsed the chassis again to remove the Foam residue.
After the chassis was taken care of next up is the wheel, tire, and wheel well routine. I first started cleaning up the wheels with the Foaming Gel Wheel Cleaner. I noticed it was thicker than other wheel cleaners and stuck pretty well to the wheel without running off. Nowhere is the harsh chemical smell of a color-changing wheel cleaner. Next up are the tires. The Rubber Rejuvenator works as you can see the tire bleeding brown residue as you clean the tire. The wheel wells were cleaned up with the Cleanse All exterior cleaner.
When starting the exterior of the vehicle I wanted to remove and cut down the amount of filth on the outside before touching it with a wash mitt. I first gave the vehicle a HP rinse to blast away as much filth as I could. Next up I foamed the vehicle with McKee’s 37 Xtreme Foam Formula Auto Shampoo and let it dwell on the surface for a while. After giving it some time to saturate, I gave it a HP rinse to remove the soap residues. I did not know it at that exact moment but found out later on in the wash stage how effective it was by letting the foam residue dwell and then HP rinsing it off.
After I rinsed the soap residue off, I loaded up McKee’s 37 Power Wash and foamed the vehicle again, I also loaded up the 2BM with Power wash in the wash bucket and set off washing the vehicle with the foam still dwelling on the surface. Here is where I realized how effective the first step of pre foaming the vehicle was as I could not believe how relatively clean my mitt was coming from the surface considering how dirty the paint was to start with.
After getting the vehicle washed I gave it another HP rinse to thoroughly remove all soap residues and proceeded to blow dry the vehicle with a leaf blower. When the vehicle was dry I followed up with an application of McKee’s 37 Fast Wax to protect the surface.
Keep your eyes open as the paint correction will follow up in another thread when I get more time to accomplish the correction work.
Total time spent on the wash detail: 5 Hours
Undercarriage:
HP Rinse via Kärcher underbody chassis cleaner
Undercarriage foamed via Kärcher Chassis cleaner/foam gun attachment and McKee’s 37 Xtreme Foam Formula Auto Shampoo
Another HP Rinse via Kärcher underbody chassis cleaner to remove Foam Wash residue
Kärcher 3n1 Chassis protectant applied via Kärcher foam gun attachment
Wheels, Tires, and wells:
Wheels cleaned up with McKee’s 37 Foaming Wheel Cleaner Gel
Tires Cleaned up with McKee’s 37 Tire and Rubber Rejuvenator
Wheel wells cleaned up with McKee’s 37 Cleanse All Exterior Cleaner
Wash:
HP Rinse with Kärcher Pressure washer
Foamed with McKee’s 37 Xtreme Foam Formula Auto Shampoo and left to dwell
HP Rinse McKee’s 37 Foam Formula from surface
Foamed again with McKee’s 37 Power wash
While covered in foam washed with Power wash via 2BM
Protection:
Spray wax application with McKee’s 37 Fast wax
Tires & Trim protected with McKee’s 37 Gloss Tire Gel
The start of the job
Foaming the undercarriage after a HP rinse to help cut down/remove filth
Next up: wheels, tires, wells
Foaming round 1
Foaming round 2
Nice and thick
After washing with foam soaked surface
